Play (2019)
by Jordan E. Cooper
Speakeasy Stage Company
Boston Center for the Arts
South End, Boston
January 10 – February 8, 2025
An intertwined series of wild, funny and unsettling sketches about identity, race and blackness, fused by an underlying dramatic motive.
Plays
Crumbs From The Table Of Joy
Play (1995)
by Lynn Nottage
Lyric Stage Company of Boston
Copley Square area, Boston
January 10 – February 2, 2025
A family drama set in the 1950s in which a widowed black father, raising two teenage daughters, deals with multiple issues across family, racial and religious boundaries.
Diary of a Tap Dancer
Play, Performance, Dance
Written and Choreographed by Ayodele Casel
American Repertory Theater
Loeb Drama Center, Harvard University
Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA
December 12, 2024 – January 4, 2025
An outstandingly conceived autobiographical show about a Black-Hispanic female tap dancer, exquisitely performed by the author and a troupe of women tap dancers.
Emma
Play (2022)
by Kate Hamill
Based on the novel by Jane Austen
Directed by Regine Vital
Actors Shakespeare Project
Multicultural Arts Center
Lechmere area, Cambridge, MA
November 14 – December 15, 2024
A rambunctious and contemporary take on the novel about a young woman who seeks satisfaction by directing the lives of others.
Noises Off
Play (1982)
by Michael Frayn
Directed by Ilyse Robbins
Lyric Stage of Boston
Copley Square area
November 15 – December 22, 2024
A capable production of the great farce depicting a play seen from both sides of the stage, front and back.